[WikiEN-l] IWF blacklist

[Durova]

This leaves several outstanding problems:
1. How many other of the 10,000 censorship decisions IWF censored this year
were equally dubious?
2. How does anyone find out about them, much less contest the mistakes?
3. What do we do about other sites that censor useful material in an
arbitrary manner?

I blogged today about the IWF and about Facebook.  Facebook has censored one
of the featured pictures I restored for Wikipedia.  The image generated zero
complaints from 17.3 million page views when it ran on Wikipedia's main
page, and I presented it in my profile merely as one of dozens of examples
of featured content work.

Yet Facebook provided no means of appeal, and my own efforts to contact them
and seek reconsideration fell on deaf ears.

The problem is bigger than IWF.

http://durova.blogspot.com/2008/12/who-watches-watchers.html

-Durova

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Presumably Google performs a search of image descriptions and surrounding
> texts, and gives results showing where other sites host the images. I don't
> think that Google hosts these images itself - but it would be interesting
> to
> see if the IWF would take the enormously public step of blocking access to
> Google in order to block access to a particular file.
>
> On the other hand, the IWF removed even the Wikipedia version of the file
> from the blacklist... So most likely they won't do anything about Google.
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Richard Weiss <richard.weiss at tvgenius.net
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I made an anonymous complaint to the IWF against google last night as
> > google.co.uk definitely hosts these images as an image search of Virgin
> > killer makes abundant and targeting wikipedia is not fair.
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope this helped tip the balance.
> >
> >
> >
> > As someone committed to not having pedophile activism promoted on
> wikipeia
> > I fully agree with Gerard that blocking the VK article text, which in no
> way
> > advocated child porn
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard Weiss
> > +(504) 3298 6511
> >
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